The anthropologist can't help but say to the former-anthropologist (and her audience): have the hair removal companies really so thoroughly brainwashed all of us that we freak out at the sight of body hair? What, none of you have any? I mean, I don't find it aesthetically pleasing myself (and thank god neither I nor my sweetheart can claim such furriness), but nor do I find it repulsive, frightening, or gross. It's just human. The furry end of the spectrum, yeah, but human. Some people have more hair than others. Some cultures are more obsessed with removing it than others. Next topic?

Now, the horrifying heights (and the LA LA LA LA I CAN'T HEAR YOU in the news) are something else entirely.

The FIRST ONE??? My GAWD... the only thing worse is the time you linked to that VILE dissected head of some animal... shudder... I STILL haven't been able to erase that image from my brain. Yah... my pregnant puking self thanks you for that.

The Ab Fab

"Or, at least, about a tenth of the [memory] cabin trunks were full of vivid and often painful or uncomfortable memories of her past life; the other nine tenths were filled with penguins, which surprised her..." (The Long Dark Tea Time of the Soul, Douglas Adams)